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 FEB. 15 & 16.

Making Tobacco water &c &c.

FEB 17.

Dipping rams & worked at yard, A brought in cattle & bull for W - also bullocks for work.

FEB. 18.

Charring posts, sinking holes etc. 14 ducks shot.

FEB. 19.

Sunday. Killed a sheep which weighed 69 lbs.

FEB. 20, 21, 22.

The same - Mount, Withnell & Lockyer started for Fortescue (River) 4 ewes ill.

FEB. 23.

Finished yard. 4 sheep bad.

FEB. 24.

Hands as usual. Self out looking for a place to station sheep, should the very dry weather continue.

FEB. 26.

Two carting. L shot 2 Turkeys. Self writing.

- Sunday One of the sick ewes died.

FEB. 27.

Tucker, A. L working & hunting stock. Self writing; & also riding about plain to quieten Jeannette & find a place to sink a well, for shepherd Firefly's foal much worse, than